There was quite a lot of hostile reaction to comments I made on this blog yesterday, albeit all from the usual pattern of new commentators
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Why won’t the government disclose the cost of climate change
The New Scientist has reported: UK government refuses request to explain cost of hitting net zero Adam Vaughan, New Scientist The UK government has refused
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Our prime minister’s a real racist
Fascism: a technique for gaining power
Sean Danaher had a powerful piece on fascism on Progressive Pulse a few days ago. He published it under the title: Fascism as a methodology
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The government’s migration policy shows Theresa May’s once predicted Nasty Party is now in power
The continual creep of the UK towards dog-whistle populism and all that follows from it continues with the government’s announcement of new controls on migration.
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Financial Secrecy: a curse that still plagues the world
In 2009 I directed the first ever iteration of the Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index. It has come a long way since then, in
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Why the fantasy world of neoclassical economics is undermining our wellbeing
Peter Bofinger is professor of economics at Würzburg University and a former member of the German Council of Economic Experts. He has written an excellent,
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Can Johnson take back control, from Cummings, that is?
According to Politics Home: Boris Johnson does not agree with senior Number 10 aides who want to force the BBC to scrap the licence fee,
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David Frost’s vision for Europe is a fantasy based on a pretence
The media has given quite a lot of attention to the speech made by David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator with the EU, in Brussels
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